Example sentences of "[art] [adj -est] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The sea mammals are well represented , with dolphin and whale ( especially the humpback whale ) in the top 10 , and the largest of the dolphins — the killer whale , or orca — also making it into the top 20 . |
| 32 | The lesser rorqual ( or minke , as it is called in Norway ) is the largest of the cetaceans likely to be met with in inshore water around Shetland . |
| 33 | Yes well if we take for example er probably the largest of the packages which we have priced converted to a fixed price basis so far which was package number three , er the tooling for the development aircraft and roll equipment which is erm er forty eight million pounds , that was priced in August nineteen ninety two when eighty percent of that work had been done . |
| 34 | I pull out the largest of the knives , then turn and leave the kitchen , heading down the corridor past the dining room and the study to the stairs . |
| 35 | Tubeworkers , the largest of the sub-contractors , is taking High Court action over money it claims is owed by Trafalgar . |
| 36 | The three men , talking earnestly , walked together to the largest of the huts and disappeared inside . |
| 37 | Verzenay is the largest of the grands crus and is the best growth on the northern slopes of the Montagne de Reims . |
| 38 | Vertus , at the southern end of the Côte des Blancs , is the largest of the grands and premiers crus . |
| 39 | Using the notation the bounds proved by Walpole for aligned transversely isotropic elements are : where the upper bound is where are the greatest of the values and the lower bound is where are the least of these . |
| 40 | ‘ Our kind is the greatest of the birds that fly in this land , ’ she explained . |
| 41 | But the greatest of the ruins of mediaeval Delhi , the great fort of Tughlukabad , lay some six miles due east of my rooftop , virtually invisible now in the gathering darkness . |
| 42 | A barograph used to record the pressure of gas in the gasholder in Batavia enabled the times of arrival of the pressure waves from the explosions to be recorded accurately , but the blast produced by the greatest of the explosions was such that the gasholder leapt out of its well , causing the gas to escape . |
| 43 | Spring , the greatest of the clothiers , owned land there valued at £105. 10s. ; his ancestors had been gentlemen , and his son John , in 1522 a gentleman in the household of Sir William Waldegrave at Smallbridge , Bures , dissolved the business on succeeding his father in 1523 . |
| 44 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
| 45 | This rebellion had two main foci : the Viceroyalties of the Rio de la Plata and of New Granada , where resistance was to be symbolized by Bolívar , the greatest of the liberators of Latin America . |
| 46 | His antagonist , Kossuth , called him ‘ the greatest of the Magyars ’ . |
| 47 | The greatest of the epilogues for me comes at the end of Don Quixote where Quixote says , ‘ I have battled , I have made mistakes , but I have lived my life as best I can according to the world as I see it , and now … ’ . |
| 48 | the greatest of the magnates , who was determined to purge the court and to overturn Edward 's indulgent grants . |
| 49 | He regarded being chief secretary , with its need to cut departmental spending throughout Government , as having been the toughest of the jobs ‘ in terms of sheer workload ’ . |
| 50 | She could do nothing about the cold or the slick damp that covered the walls , but she had gathered as much straw as she could and had made a bed in the driest of the cells . |
| 51 | From the terms in which he subsequently refers to the longest of the fragments , we can confirm that " The Greek State " represents a short-lived attempt to widen the scope of a book whose central concern with tragedy was already determined . |
| 52 | Jessica had been getting out of the house for a while since just after the youngest of the boys had begun at school . |
| 53 | Occasionally he was referred to by those who saw him at services as ‘ the old canon ’ though he was much the youngest of the canons . |
| 54 | In addition , he was engaged in a fierce dispute over the advowson of one of his manors — Shere in Surrey — with the youngest of the brothers , Aymer de Valence , Earl of Pembroke and bishop-elect of Winchester [ q.v . ] . |
| 55 | Former Coronation Street star Jean Alexander , 64 , is the youngest of the regulars in the new series of The Last of the Summer Wine . |
| 56 | The prices quoted below are , unless otherwise stated , the cheapest on the agents ' lists for shared twin-bedded rooms . |
| 57 | In the end , though , it would all be bang on and tickety boo ( or was that the wrong war ? ) because Rupert , the sexiest of the pilots , managed to win through . |
| 58 | A further refinement was that the entrance to the town 's harbour was under the furthest-out of the bridges , so that entry and exit thereto could be denied at any time by the castle 's occupants , with a great boom to be lowered . |
| 59 | The needle enters this space by passing between two of the lumbar vertebrae ( the lowest of the bones that make up the spine ) after the whole area has been infiltrated with local anaesthetic . |
| 60 | Even the lowest of the qualifiers still had something to play for . |